Oregon – Democrat Dacia Grayber’s bigoted “paramilitary “ bill is back from the dead.
HB 2572 is now scheduled for a hearing tomorrow in the House Committee on Rules, which has no deadlines.
We warned you about this dangerous anti-rights bill here: “This Is Not A Gun Bill.”
This outrageous and insulting bill has massive opposition. It is only supported by the most extreme anti-gun organizations like the “League of Women Voters,” the “Alliance for Gun Responsibility” and the Oregon Department of Justice.
While the promoters of the bill have insisted it’s “not a gun” bill, as you can see by the alert linked above, the people pushing it are radical anti-gunners.
There is no question this bill is intended to strip the rights of legally armed people to protect their property. And while the leftists promoting it are trying to mislead voters, this bill defines “paramilitary organizations” as:
‘Private paramilitary organization’ means any group of three or more persons associating under a command structure for the purpose of functioning in public or training to function in public as a combat, combat support, law enforcement or security services unit.
As we told you, an opinion from “Legislative Counsel,” the lawyers who write the bills, stated:
“In section 2 of HB 2572, the definition of “private paramilitary organization” is quite broad and could in fact apply to a private security company, since a private security company would not fall within the law enforcement exception in subsection (3).”
It could also apply to your church security team.
Please contact the Rep. Vikki Breese Iverson, who is vice chair of that committee, and remind her that this bill is not only an attack on private citizens protecting property, it is almost certainly unconstitutional.
You can submit testimony here.
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Oregon left wingers want to enslave the populace. They achieve more to this end with every bill they pass, and while unconstitutional, these laws remain on the books and are enforced until they are struck down by the courts. People’s freedom is destroyed and lives are ruined, and even when the laws are eventually overturned, the lawmakers face no accountability whatsoever.
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The 2nd amendment protects the right to be armed for purposes of engaging in paramilitary activity, far more than it protects the right to hunt, or even for self protection. The purpose of the 2nd is to enable the people to repel an invasion or oust a tyrant. Here in Oregon, there’s little chance of invasion, but this this kind of legislation shows us that there are tyrants. These are the same legislators that legalized meth and fentanyl here, and that are decriminalizing most theft, property damage, and even assaults.
That PARAMILITARY activity is known as MILITIA training! Read more about it here: Those Forgotten and Ignored 13 WordsWhy we need our citizen militias back...
With that broad definition a neighborhood watch would be in question.
I think that’s their whole idea. Just ask George Zimmerman.
Like almost any violation of the Constitution today which is as obvious as the nose on your face… “A regrettably large share of our legal experiences operate not in the shadow of the Constitution and its constraints, but rather in the shadow of explicitly unconstitutional rules, actions, and orders. In the time it takes for improper Executive Orders to be reined in, for illicit administrative decisions to be corrected, and for misinterpretations of constitutional power to be overturned, so much of society’s activity is framed by what we might call the not-Constitution — all those acts of government that are… Read more »
Why else do they call it OREGHANISTAN???